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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 28, 2003 — Alexander Nemerov, professor of art history at Yale University, will deliver a lecture on Wednesday, March 12, at 7 p.m. in Lawrence Hall, room 231.
The lecture, titled “Coming Home in 1945: Reading Robert Frost and Norman Rockwell,” will explore their works and lives. Frost’s poetry is principally associated with the life and landscape of New England. Rockwell lived in Vermont and Massachusetts and painted small-town American life.
Nemerov teaches courses on American art from the 17th century to 1960. He focuses primarily on the arts of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially painting. All of his courses emphasize close study of individual works of art.
He is the author of two books, “The Body of Raphaelle Peale” and “Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America,” the winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1996. He has written on Abbott Thayer, Carl Rungius, N.C. Wyeth, Charles Russell, and Benjamin West, among others.
In 1991, he was co-curator of the controversial Smithsonian exhibition, “The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920.”
His research has recently focused on Hollywood film of the 1940s, American painting of the 1850s, and American illustration from the Brandywine School.
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Published February 28, 2003
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